Sunday, June 3, 2012

FIGZ reloaded

We arrived early in the morning at Arnhem and were welcomed by our hosts, Benno & Remco.
In the showroom, we started to build up our own work - just besides the works of other great figure painters.

The other room was reserved for traders, wargamers and the competition stage.

As you can see, there were a lot of ways to spend some money. After all, I just buyed some new brushes and a marvellous ART tin figure from Schmaeling. Plus two single sprues with HaT figures for my project. ;-)
I have been very brave today...

For example, I did not start to collect the fabulous Brunswick infantry from Zinnfiguren Schilling (http://www.zinnfiguren-schilling.de/). Well - they have started to produce French infantry as well. So I'm not sure how long I can withstand spending my money at their booth...

Here I just put up my project work and some goodies.
And here's some great stuff from other painters:

That's just some of the great stuff that was to be seen at FIGZ - so for all people that didn't make it to the show: hope to see you next year. I'll be there for sure. Oh. And before I forget it:

I won a prize! Geez! I never won a trophy.

Ben! That's the Prussian hussar that you sent over to me. That little fellow now is a real competition no.1. :-D Thanks a lot my friend!

Additionally, I was so lucky to get some test sprues of some of Franznaps' excellent forthcoming sets. French lancers and Naples staff officers... totally great. Francesco is one of these unbelievable artists that create little wonders in plastics. Look at his website: http://www.franznap.jigsy.com/
I had a first look at his Naples guard infantry - probably some of the best 1/72 figures I have ever seen!

So keep in touch - there will be much new stuff at this place in the future. Or in other words:

6 comments:

very cool post... I saw works I remember well. pauls wierd and wonderful fanatsy stuff... I appear to really miss out here in NZ you all can meet there... anyway that truck at the end is briliant. (was it at the show?)

Thank you, friends! :-)Yes, the Jeep picture was taken at FIGZ2, I remember it was one of Jans (MaBo) work. The shown examples were (in order of the pictures) from the following members of the Bennos' forum:-DasDirch-Gunbird-DadDirch-Paul-?-Remco-Peter-TheObserver (competition winner dio Multi Figures)-Konrad-Peter-OldWolf-Paul-Konrad

About Me

I've been born in 1974, I'm married for more than ten years with a hyper-creative woman and I'm the father of two wonderful boys.
Naturally, that doesn't leave much daytime for any hobby. Painting miniatures is my way of relaxation. My addiction, to be honest.
I'm in this hobby again for nearly two years now. It all started when my Dad bought a plastic kit of a Mitsubishi Zero when I was six years old. First, he build planes for me, later I did it on my own. My first ESCI box of British infantry came to me when I was around 14 years old. I must confess that I painted it lousily, but back then, I liked them very much.
Now, after all these years in which I preferred computer games, girls, parties and doing nonsense, I slowly started to settle down again - and back came the little plastic dudes.
I consider myself being an apprentice in these arts. There's so much more to learn! So I hope you enjoy this place and my works and maybe it's a way of exchanging inspiration. Please feel free to leave comments!